[DRE-maint] Bug#985799: ruby-licensee 9.14.1-1: no library files in the DEB package

[Pirate Praveen]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:44:28 +0530 Pirate Praveen 
<praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
 > On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 21:31:28 +0000 Mike Gabriel 
<mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
 > > Package: ruby-licensee
 > > Version: 9.14.1-1
 > > Severity: grave
 > > X-Debbugs-Cc: praveen at debian.org
 > >
 > > The ruby-licensee package as currently found in Debian experimental
 > > lacks the entire library folder of the licensee Gem. These files, 
at
 > > least, are missing from the package:
 > >
 > > .
 > > ├── licensee
 > > │   ├── commands
 > > │   │   ├── detect.rb
 > > │   │   ├── diff.rb
 > > │   │   ├── license_path.rb
 > > │   │   └── version.rb
 > > │   ├── content_helper.rb
 > > │   ├── hash_helper.rb
 > > │   ├── license_field.rb
 > > │   ├── license_meta.rb
 > > │   ├── license.rb
 > > │   ├── license_rules.rb
 > > │   ├── matchers
 > > │   │   ├── cabal.rb
 > > │   │   ├── cargo.rb
 > > │   │   ├── copyright.rb
 > > │   │   ├── cran.rb
 > > │   │   ├── dice.rb
 > > │   │   ├── dist_zilla.rb
 > > │   │   ├── exact.rb
 > > │   │   ├── gemspec.rb
 > > │   │   ├── matcher.rb
 > > │   │   ├── npm_bower.rb
 > > │   │   ├── nuget.rb
 > > │   │   ├── package.rb
 > > │   │   ├── reference.rb
 > > │   │   └── spdx.rb
 > > │   ├── matchers.rb
 > > │   ├── project_files
 > > │   │   ├── license_file.rb
 > > │   │   ├── package_manager_file.rb
 > > │   │   ├── project_file.rb
 > > │   │   └── readme_file.rb
 > > │   ├── project_files.rb
 > > │   ├── projects
 > > │   │   ├── fs_project.rb
 > > │   │   ├── github_project.rb
 > > │   │   ├── git_project.rb
 > > │   │   └── project.rb
 > > │   ├── projects.rb
 > > │   ├── rule.rb
 > > │   └── version.rb
 > > └── licensee.rb
 > >
 > > I stumbled over this when checking the package content (dpkg -L
 > > ruby-licensee) and compared it to the list of files being pulled in
 > > using "gem install -v 9.14.1 licensee".
 > >
 > > Then DEB package only contains the cmdline executable, but lacks 
the

They use git command to find list of files to install which fails in 
the debian build env with a tarball. Usually this results in build 
failure but they have done the git command in a different way so it did 
not result in build failure so we did not notice it. This was resulted 
in autopkgtest failure, but sometimes autopkgtest fails for different 
reasons, we did not dig that deeper.

So the fix would be to patch the gemspec file to not use git command to 
find the list of files to install